On July 23rd Ryan flew Stephanie out to Spokane to meet his family. Ryan comes from a family of three. He has an older brother named Russ who is married to a girl from Fruitland named Taryn. They recently had their first child - a beautiful girl named Claira. Russ is in the military and they live back east at the present time. Ryan is the middle child and he has a sister named Candace who is Stephanie's age. Ryan's parents names are Steve and Bev and they are both converts to the church. Bev is a pediatric nurse and Steve works in the computer industry. Stephanie absolutely LOVED his family!
Ryan took Stephanie to the Nishinomiya Gardens in Spokane Sunday evening. They danced under the Gazebo and Ryan sang her favorite song to her from the movie My Best Friend's Wedding - "The way you look tonight" and then dropped to his knees and proposed. Stephanie says it was the most romantic thing she has ever experienced!
Ryan was sneaky and had found out from Vanessa and one of Steph's girlfriends the ring she had wanted and had purchased it when he was up for Vanessa and Ben's wedding. So, you can imagine Steph's shock when he pulled out the ring she had been eyeing for quite some time but had never told him or showed him!
Although there was no video going for this engagement...here are a few photos of the ring, the happy couple afterwards and the beautiful gardens they were at! Enjoy!
Friday, August 04, 2006
Honeymooners in Texas
(EMAIL FROM VANESSA IN DALLAS)
Have you ever heard of Medeival Times? Well, it's right next to our hotel, so Ben decided it would be fun to spend some extra money and go. It was so much fun. At first I felt like I was surrounded by almost a thousand band geeks, but then it got better. Ha! We walked around a torture museum...they sure did use PSYCHO things back in the day. I took a picture of a "head crusher"...yikes! We wore crowns and ate the food with our hands. We had soup, 1/2 chicken (each), ribs, potato, garlic bread, and an apple cinnamon pie for dessert. It was TONS of food, and really yummy. We watched a "tournament" from the knights. There were 6 knights and we set in 6 sections to cheer on our knight. Ben and I were from the "Kingdom of Navarra" and we cheered for the yellow knight, who got killed by a huge ball and chain. Haha! Anyway, here are some pictures. Enjoy!
Have you ever heard of Medeival Times? Well, it's right next to our hotel, so Ben decided it would be fun to spend some extra money and go. It was so much fun. At first I felt like I was surrounded by almost a thousand band geeks, but then it got better. Ha! We walked around a torture museum...they sure did use PSYCHO things back in the day. I took a picture of a "head crusher"...yikes! We wore crowns and ate the food with our hands. We had soup, 1/2 chicken (each), ribs, potato, garlic bread, and an apple cinnamon pie for dessert. It was TONS of food, and really yummy. We watched a "tournament" from the knights. There were 6 knights and we set in 6 sections to cheer on our knight. Ben and I were from the "Kingdom of Navarra" and we cheered for the yellow knight, who got killed by a huge ball and chain. Haha! Anyway, here are some pictures. Enjoy!
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